Architecture and Home Design

This sumptuous residence is one of those properties which come in mind when you think about luxury home designed in traditional style. Elegant architecture, dormer windows and ivy covered walls could attract attention of everybody who’ll take a look at it. The house features 6 bedrooms, 6 full bathrooms, and 2 half-baths at the more than 11000 square feets of living space. Besides that there are the sauna, pool cabana with kitchen, dedicated library with a fireplace, two powder rooms, fully customized office, family room with fireplace opens to the pool, tennis court, two garages for 7 cars, fitness area and other usual living spaces. Large outdoor entertainment area is decorated with colonnade of towering palm trees. The interior is done neutral, sophisticated palette which makes it very pleasant for living. [ 351stockbridge ]

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This modern estate has an open floor play with 3 levels. It’s highly customized starting with Carara marble throughout the house and exotic wood used throughout the built-ins and doors and ending with curved exterior walls and a lot of high-tech electronic. Automation systems include built-in electronic shades for the windows and doors, central music system, security system with monitors and gates with access codes, elevator, radiant floor heating in entire house and so on. Besides 6 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms there are full bar, office, walk in pantry, exercise room, media room, full storage room, wine cellar, dining room, covered patio with fireplace in the house. Surrounded by Palm trees and exotic tropical fruit trees, the house is almost a tropical resort with pool patio. [ Via ]

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This Beautiful Luxury Home with High Quality Furniture is designed by Marc Canadell.
Marc Canadell is an European architect who designed this beautiful luxury house high above the famous Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The site is one acre of privacy but the house is perfectly perched at the end of a cul-de-sac in order to get most stunning city views from its windows. Only the highest quality materials and modern high quality furniture was used in its construction and interior designing. 9000 square feet house features 5 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, infinity lap pool and great outdoor desks and entertainment area. Although the price for such piece of art is also affordable only for those who already has luxury lifestyle.

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This Modern Home with Low Energy Lighting is designed by Webster Wilson.
Webster Wilson, the designer of this house on the slope of an extinct volcano in inner city Portland, implemented his vision of modernist design with a humanistic slant. While being designed in modern style the house is complimented by generous use of natural finished wood and stone. Principals of abundant open space and natural light are implemented in the house. It is situated so high that commanding views of the neighbor could be seen almost from every room in all four levels. The clad of the house is done in a dark-stained knotty cedar and a weathered bark. The total house’s area is 2600 square feet. There are 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, working studio, kitchen, laundry, master suite with roof top deck and so on. Low energy lighting scheme, windows with thermally broken aluminum frames, solar panels on the roof and plenty other things implement principals of environment friendly house design.

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This Sears Tower Renovation is designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, located in Chicago, United States
According to the U.S Department of State, buildings account for an estimated 36 percent of overall energy use, 65 percent of electricity consumption, 30 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions and 12 percent of water use in America. Green improvements to Sears Tower are aimed at reducing electricity use by 80% in just four years, equating to 68 million kilowatt hours or 150,000 barrels of oil per year. The architects firm responsible for the retro-design, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, has also designed a 50 storey highly sustainable tower to accompany Sears Tower on its south side which will draw power from the improved efficiency measures and work as a net-zero energy development.

Sears Tower’s Chicagoan neighbour, Merchandise Mart, was an earlier example of monumental eco retrofitting in America gaining LEED Silver and becoming the world’s greenest certified commercial building. As the world’s tallest tower for 24 years, the retrofitting of Sears Tower will be a significantly larger undertaking, with all 110 stories incorporated in the changes.

Improvements include removing all 16,000 single-pane windows and swapping with modern replacements, modernizing the tower’s 104 high speed elevators, harnessing renewable energy through turbine and solar technology, introducing green roofs to reduce storm water run-off and improve insulation as well as creating the world’s tallest vistas for tenants and upgrading facilities throughout to use more efficient technology.
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